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Do you think it's funny?

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Voting closed: September 02, 2005, 08:21:36 pm

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« on: September 02, 2005, 08:21:09 pm »
http://www.planettribes.com/allyourbase/AYB2.swf
You have to watch this, it's hilarious!

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« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2005, 09:15:46 pm »
*Sighs at yet another "all your base are belong to us" related media*

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« Reply #2 on: September 03, 2005, 02:55:35 am »
If you think this is funny, then you're a n00b not just to the forums, but to the entire internet.

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« Reply #3 on: September 03, 2005, 07:21:56 am »
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If you think this is funny, then you're a n00b not just to the forums, but to the entire internet.

You're very good at making your opinion look like an actual fact.

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« Reply #4 on: September 03, 2005, 10:54:23 am »
There is an interesting sociological question in all of this: For what reasons, and at what point, does a given person become resentful of those who do not yet know, or have just recently learned, some detail which he or she has known for a longer interval?

Usually it has been my experience that a person is very eager and glad for any opportunity to point out to an audience some piece of information that he or she knows. Everyone likes to trump up their intelligence in that way, gaining ego points by impressing people with their knowledge and simultaneously implying the superiority of that knowledge over that of their audience. The resentfulness seems to be a dimension added on to the top of this...as though it were an even more emphatic mechanism of self-aggrandizement, inasmuch as a qualified disdain for the audience's ignorance of whatever detail is at issue therefore drops the audience down even further, thereby increasing the implicit intelligence gap between the speaker and the audience.

It's all psychological. The fact is that someone stumbled upon the All Your Base flash and correctly found it hilarious, but made this discovery long enough after the video's initial publication that some feel compelled to ridicule the poor bloke for having found it at all.

Society may be a creature of logic and order, but human beings themselves are animals first...predictable and puerile.

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« Reply #5 on: September 03, 2005, 11:52:19 am »
...I'm no noob! Get THAT through your head! I'm tired of being called a noob! I've been on the internet for 5 years! NOT A NOOB.

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« Reply #6 on: September 03, 2005, 01:10:33 pm »
This was big 5 or 6 years ago.  Seriously, how did you just find this.  It was in the news, and even Foxtrot had a comic about it FIVE YEARS AGO.

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« Reply #7 on: September 03, 2005, 01:17:35 pm »
It's a big Internet.

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« Reply #8 on: September 03, 2005, 01:46:50 pm »
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...I'm no noob! Get THAT through your head! I'm tired of being called a noob! I've been on the internet for 5 years! NOT A NOOB.


If you're going to get that worked up over it, I'm not so sure.

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« Reply #9 on: September 03, 2005, 03:03:49 pm »
Don't call people noobs.

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« Reply #10 on: September 03, 2005, 04:28:06 pm »
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There is an interesting sociological question in all of this: For what reasons, and at what point, does a given person become resentful of those who do not yet know, or have just recently learned, some detail which he or she has known for a longer interval?

Usually it has been my experience that a person is very eager and glad for any opportunity to point out to an audience some piece of information that he or she knows. Everyone likes to trump up their intelligence in that way, gaining ego points by impressing people with their knowledge and simultaneously implying the superiority of that knowledge over that of their audience. The resentfulness seems to be a dimension added on to the top of this...as though it were an even more emphatic mechanism of self-aggrandizement, inasmuch as a qualified disdain for the audience's ignorance of whatever detail is at issue therefore drops the audience down even further, thereby increasing the implicit intelligence gap between the speaker and the audience.

It's all psychological. The fact is that someone stumbled upon the All Your Base flash and correctly found it hilarious, but made this discovery long enough after the video's initial publication that some feel compelled to ridicule the poor bloke for having found it at all.

Society may be a creature of logic and order, but human beings themselves are animals first...predictable and puerile.


"There is but one good, knowledge; and but one evil, ignorance."
-Socrates

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« Reply #11 on: September 03, 2005, 10:17:48 pm »
I'd normaly not get worked up about it, but I'm sick and tired of being called a noob. And, for how I didn't find out about this 5-6 years ago, I don't know.

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« Reply #12 on: September 03, 2005, 10:44:12 pm »
If it makes you feel any better, I'VE never seen it before. And I still remember when the internet was a new thing, and 56k dial-up was extreme. For that matter, I still remember being excited about CD-ROM drives, come to think of it, and the Star Wars game Rebel Assault which was always playing in the game stores. That was long before CT even came out, actually. That was what, '93? Good grief, I'm still old enough to remember when 16Mb of Ram cost hundreds of dollars, and when Pentium was a new thing, a major step up from the good old 486s (come to think of it, my father just got rid of our old Pentium 90 that was, in fact, an upgrade from a 486.) The good old days when 'Hard Drive Required' was written on the box of a cutting-edge game; that would be the beginning of the 90's, back when I was 6 or 7... anyone remember this?



That's Captain Comic. I can still hum the tune to that game, I played it so much. I used to love that game or, rather, the demo for it. It was bloody hard, too. When I played it, my fingers were too short to reach properly both the movement keys, and the 0 key which was fire, so I am my brother would take turns alternately being movement and gunner. Those were the good old days of gaming...
Though I'm sure there's a goodly number of people on these forums that can remember back further than that.
The point is, I've seen computers and games for a while, likewise the internet. But I've still never seen that thing, nor can I quite comprehend why its considered to be so funny. But I suppose I'm not a humerous person, nor one for parodies.

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« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2005, 02:50:10 am »
The original "All your base are belong to us" video was a little funny. All the rip-offs were tactless and boring. Seeing this is like seeing a sad clown. I won't call you noob... But I'll just say, please don't post anymore of these "hilarious" things here.

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« Reply #14 on: September 04, 2005, 02:36:56 pm »
Yeesh..Sor-ry! I just thought you guys might have wanted to see it.